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The Magpie’s Gift by Skul [Scene 3]

Secret commission reveal!

This piece was made exclusively for Patron Skul’s secret Christmas project and I’m happy we can finally share this with everyone! This is a scene from his video The Magpie’s Gift - A Zootopia Story.

This was my hardest piece to complete as I’d been on an involuntary hiatu...

Piece Peek (Nick)

And here we are with Nick! Got his little sweater vest on and, won’t lie, I’m digging him in his sweaters. But if you’ve read my Christmas Needs More Cilantro comic, you know I like a good winter sweater on this fox :P

Speaking of Christmas,...

Final Piece Peek (Judy)

Hola! I've been working on the piece I showed a few weeks back this month and today I finally finished it! Because it's a commission, I cannot post the final until a few more day. But it got me back into a a bit of a groove. Almost like walking again, but with crutches.

Whatever gets us results, right?

I'll sha...

Work…In Progress!

I honestly don’t know how to express my appreciation to all of you who’ve continued to support me despite my relative absence this year as I go through my own issues. You’ll never know that I’ve been thinking of this little community despite it all. I hope everyone’s been doing well and that the end of 2024 will be ...

Friday Nite Stream Friday @ 8PM ET

I can’t believe it’s July already.

Streaming in The Cove at 8pm ET this Friday. Help me get back into the groove with some ideas I can doodle - any practice is good practice!

Aloha Cove, Long Time No See

I’m SO sorry, I missed you guys so much. A lot has changed in my personal, professional and financial life - as well as my mental health - that have taken me way off course. BIG regrets that it took me so long to get back to you all or even check-in, this wasn’t my intention to go ghost but I’ve been struggling with a l...

New Comic This Month

Now that April is here and the first round of comms are done, I can finally turn all my attention towards getting my new comic out to you! After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to create it primarily in black and white for my own ease, with standout pages being in colour — this will be the case for the printed copies too. ...

WIP | Details, Details!

This piece is getting done this week! Lots of little details take time to finish and it never feels like it's getting done, but the more time passes the more it comes together! Once every character has flats added I'll do very minimal extra shading before I close this one out.

Thanks for your patience, Ray!

Streaming Schedule This Week

I'll be working on the following this week before moving on to Uncle Nick in April:

• Monday (no stream): Christmas Needs More Cilantro - prepping for French translation

• Tuesday @8PM EST: Ray Commission

• Wednesday @8PM EST: Ray Commission (if still unfinished) or Colonel / Dom / Skul ...

  2024-03-25 23:34:40 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP | Rex Star, Guardian of the Cosmos

[Cue the explosions]

Still hammering this bad-boy out to make sure it looks good both to me and to Ray! The foreshortening and perspective were a challenge old Qal wouldn't have taken, but 2024 is the year we HAVE to take chances and make more mistakes to improve les arts Zootopie :> I aim to finish this by ...

Streaming on Discord Tomorrow at 8PM EST

I'll be streaming Ray's commission that I started last week. One more character is left to do, but actually I found out today that the file hadn't saved last stream....so I'm redrawing (tracing) Judy literally right now (so you guys don't have to watch me REdo that part again LOL!)

2024-03-19 02:29:19 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP - Ray Commission

Results from last night's stream - we got a lot done! Tonite I'll be working on the rest of Nikey and then move over to Jude :>

Thank you to everyone who stopped by last night!

Commission for Resident Patron Ray

The following is a commission based on the ideas of the commissioner themselves.

Drafting phase for Ray’s sketch piece with different options based on what he’s requested - a superhero OC with NJ and Cotton. Lots of shapes in this OC’s outfit so I know this is gonna keep me busy for the n...

Streaming This Week

Happy Monday, everyone! I hope yours turns out to be a great week :> Shoutout to Thomas Wang for moving into the Little Rodentia tier - thank you, Thomas! If you or anyone else in the Little Rodentia tier and up would like access to my Discord server, please feel free to DM me and I’ll send over an invit...

New Comic Dropping This April🦊!

Ahhhh spring. A time of new life and new beginnings. It's only fitting that I now happily announce that my brainchild, Uncle Nick, will be springing to your Patreon feed in comic form starting this April!

S...

Commission Art

February provided an unexpected delay in my output that I'm just now rectifying, so apologies for the lack of communication. More info to come this week on the plan this spring, but my focus right now is completing some of the pieces in my small queue of commissions.

Below is Ray's WH (left side) x UN (right side) doodl...

WildeHopps Night Sketchy

Yup, I did the forbidden thing last night. Thanks to everyone who came!

Commissions Are Open [Again]!

I've decided to open commissions again to give my brain a rest from Zootopia whilst I write a 200+page story. The below form includes pricing and offerings; those in the Donation Station tier are now able to submit a form as well! I'll take as many commissions as I can and refer to the list once I'm available again.

2024-01-21 00:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Finished Pieces (3)! and WildeHopps Stream Date

Raffle Winner Sketch (⋆｡°✩Finished⋆｡°✩)

Nehkles movie night piece is finished!

We've got a sleepy Finnick, a messy Benji, Piper sounding the alarm, messy part 2 (aka Cotton), Judy - who s...

Commission WIPs and Christmas Stream Art

Hi, everyone! How's your second week of 2024 going? I hope it's well for all of you (∩˃o˂∩)♡

Christmas Week Art

Since Christmas stream week got cut off I hadn't uploaded these doodles, so please enjoy them now!...

Work In Progress - Winter Hangout Night @ Judy's

I sketched out a piece here for Nehkles who won the raffle last month! He wanted a piece of Judy, Nick, Fin, Clawhauser having either a game night or movie night - I opted for movie night here (´｡• ω •｡`) You might see a hint of her to the left of Claw when I originally had him holding her. Once it's finished you'll...

🎇Happy New Year, Everyone!🎊

We made it to 2024! Ready for an amazing year, because I am! We got a great start on works last year, but this year I'm aiming to level-up considerably on all fronts and take on a larger project as well. Exciting, but scary! Keeping the cards close to my chest for now, but more to come this month.

Commission Café - Ne...

2024-01-02 02:56:36 +0000 UTC View Post

🎄!Merry Christmas! 🎁

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you’re having a wonderful one in the best way possible! My Christmas present is all of your support this year!

Here’s to another great year!

Stream Postponed to Next Week

I'm the hospital at the moment dealing with my elderly grandmother so unfortunately I must postpone tonite's stream to next week.

I'm sorry, but I hope you all have a good holiday weekend however you chose to spend it. Grateful to all of you :>

Holiday Special - Merry & Bright Picarto Stream Nights!

Three nights of streaming await this week just in time for the holidays! Starting at 20:00 EST every Wed, Thurs and Fri on Picarto.

★ [WED] 12.20 >>> Sketch Dump Hours

★ [THU] 12.21<...